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There are many bloggers who make incomes of several thousand dollars per month from their blogs. These are not casual bloggers who only want to see their words and their name online or who just want to put forth a point-of-view, these are serious bloggers who have made blogging into a full-time (or nearly full-time) job.

Here are some of the ways they make money from their blogs and ways you can also weblog for bucks:

Advertising! There are many advertisers waiting for you to approach them, these are programs such as Google's Adsense (https ://www.google.com/adsense/) where you allow companies to place their ads . . . ads related to your topic . . . on your weblog . Each time one of your readers clicks on an ad on your weblog , you earn a small amount of money (a predetermined amount). A slightly different approach is used by companies such as CrispADS (http://www.crispads.com/). With this type of service, you tell them how much you want to charge for advertising space on your weblog and they will attempt to find an advertiser who will pay that price (plus a commission for the go-between company). These are just two of a large group that is expanding daily.

Blog Feeds! RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and ATOM Feeds are two of the dominant weblog feeds. The object of a weblog feed is to distribute every new post you add to your weblog to a list of subscribers; you make your weblog posts available to RSS or ATOM, people who want to read your stuff on a regular basis can subscribe to your posts and read them on a newsreader. The latest trend is to include advertising to these weblog feeds and, as before, if your subscriber clicks on an ad that is included with your feed, you get some money. There are no BIG bucks here yet but its a rapidly growing field.

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Affiliate Programs! Online companies have been offering affiliate programs to bloggers for years, some of the big ones are Amazon, Linkshare and Clickbank. They work by providing you a unique URL that you add to your weblog . Any readers that click through to the company and buy something are providing you with a commission. Another version of the affiliate program is the "mini-mall" concept offered by companies such as Chitika eMiniMalls. The mini-mall works (like the affiliate program), through a link on your weblog that takes your reader to a page with a variety of merchandise -- all sales earn you a commission.

Sponsors! Large corporations are very aware of the blogosphere and of the growing number of people who read blogs and, in response, they are using blogs to advance their business interests -- blogs may never replace the Michael Jordan-type superstars for corporations but blogs are already gaining many fairly lucrative corporate sponsorships. If you have a weblog that is dedicated to a particular topic, e.g., digital cameras, that is published on a regular basis, that has a good readership and is recognized as an authoritative source for digital camera information, your weblog may draw the interest of a corporate sponsor and you may be approached to run their advertisements for new products on a long-term basis. If and when you reach that point you know you've made it to the big time, professional blogger's league.

Your Product! The methods mentioned above are just a few of the very many ways you can start making money from your weblog . . . but there is a catch!

As you probably noticed every scheme mentioned and every other money-making blogging scheme you'll find requires a great weblog . . . a weblog that draws hundreds of readers (as a minimum) on a regular basis. To reach this stage of readership you need a weblog that offers the reader some type of unique, quality content.

If blogging is to be a money making business for you, you'll need to treat it like a business by dedicating your time, energy and creativity to its success. Also, like any successful business, you need a product or service that is a 'customer magnet.' Your "product" is your content: it could be news or information or entertainment but whatever it is, it must be unique and interesting.

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What Does A Blogging Consultant Look Like?

You know, normally you can find a definition of a word or phrase by typing "define: your phrase here" into google and come up with a lot of results. Currently there are millions of blogs and there are hundreds of people who call themselves "Blog or Blogging Consultants", yet when you type "define: Blogging Consultant or Blogging Consultant" into google you get no definition.

That is probably a good thing for most blogging consultants because without a definition, there is no standard to hold them to. I'm not claiming to be the blogging guru of all time or anything of the sort. So before you "blogging consultants" out there start getting defensive about this, think before you write. If you get too nasty about the post I may ask you to define "blogging consultant" and without google many of you couldn't do it.

Now that is out of the way, lets talk business. Every business should have a weblog . There are so many reasons for your business to have a weblog it would be hard to write them all in one weblog post, so lets assume you know your company needs a weblog .

So do you hire a blogging consultant? What qualifications do you look for in a blogging consultant? What does a blogging consultant look like? How much should I pay a blogging consultant?

Lets start with "Should you hire a blogging consultant?"

The quick answer is yes, but lets go into why first. There are a lot of things that go into making a weblog popular. Technorati tags, submissions and pings to bloglists and blogsearch web sites, learning how to get on the right blogrolls, etc.

If you are new to blogging it takes awhile to catch on to most of these things and most blogging consultants say that all of the above is necessary if you are going to have a successful weblog .

There are more things to add to the list but this article isn't about how to run a successful weblog , it's about blogging consultants. Hiring a blogging consultant can save you from making a lot of early mistakes and get your weblog found a lot quicker than trying to do it on your own.

Now all the blogging consultants are liking me again. I can tell. But will it last?

What qualifications do you look for in a blogging consultant?

Here is where things get ugly between me and the blogging consultants. Most blogging consultants are . . . well . . . bloggers. Many of them have what they think is a successful weblog although many bloggers have different ideas for what success is.

Some think it's defined as how much they made on google adnonsense last month. Others count success by number of visitors to their web site or the number of comments that appear on their weblog . Still others measure their success by what the other bloggers think about them.

What do all of those bloggers who are blogging consultants have in common? They all think that having a successful weblog automatically makes you a qualified blogging consultant. I told you it was going to get nasty. After this article if I measured my success by what the other bloggers think of me then I'm doomed!

Fortunately I don't measure my success in terms of what the other bloggers and blogging consultants think. Lets get back to those qualifications for a blogging consultant.

First of all a weblog is a web site. It is a web site that is updated often in most cases, but it is still a web site. Each blogpost becomes a page of that web site. So with a weblog you are creating more webpages to your web site as often as you post to your weblog .

Now I have a question for you. Would you first look to hire a blogger to do search engine optimization for your web site? Would you first look to hire a blogger to handle your AdWords campaign? Would you first look for a blogger to build your web site for you?

The answer to all of the above is probably no, unless the blogger also has experience in those fields and not just for their weblog . Actual web sites they have built, optimized, and marketed for themselves and for clients.

A blogging consultant should not just be a blogger. They should also have all of the skills necessary to run a web site. Now the blogging consultants are all mad at me again. But think about it. Many bloggers know how to write. They know how to get into the right circle of blogger friends who will link to them. They know about blogging.

So if all you need to know is how to write a weblog , then hiring a blogger who knows how to write is the answer, but if you need someone who is going to manage your weblog for you including posting to the weblog , search engine optimization, link popularity, (and not just from blogrolls), and marketing, then you need to hire a webmaster who also blogs.

Okay, How much should I pay a blogging consultant?

How much do you have? Just kidding. A lot depends on the type of weblog you want or have. A corporation weblog has to pay more, not because they have more, but because there are all kinds of legal and policy matters that have to be considered with every single weblog post and every single link to or from another weblog or web site. A small business weblog doesn't have many of the same issues as the corporate weblog , but still has certain standards that need to be met.

If you have ever hired a webmaster, not a web designer, a webmaster, (Thats another article), or a Search Engine Optimization Company, or a Search Engine Marketer, or even just a Marketing Consultant, (The just was in there just so I could make consultants mad again.), then you have an idea of what a blogging consultant should cost.

Now keep in mind, if you are hiring a blogging consultant to strictly teach you how to weblog , then it's not worth as much money as when you hire a blogging consultant who is also going to perform all of the services a Webmaster and Internet Marketer would provide plus search engine optimization.

Ha ha! I still didn't say how much it costs. It's coming. Read on.

What does a Blogging Consultant look like?

He or she looks like someone who has more than just a weblog or blogs. Someone who also owns and manages several web sites for themselves and for clients. As I said before a weblog is still a web site.

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